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Solid, lots of add-on modules, vibrant hacker community. And it has its own programmable processor so if your application permits you don’t even have to have it attached to your PC to collect and process data.

MORE RASPBERRY PI BOARDS with the “Made in UK” stamp will soon start shipping, as RS Components has revealed it is starting to move its production of the ARM processor based Linux computer from China to Britain.

When we heard the news on Friday that the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s other distributor Premier Farnell has shifted 100 percent of its manufacturing to the UK

RS Components’ product marketing PR manager Joanne Youson told
“We are starting to move manufacturing into the UK, and while our aim is to ultimately move all production to the UK, dual location production in China will continue for the foreseeable future,” she said.

Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton at Technology Frontiers: “Programming will make you a better doctor”

Upton attributed the relative lack of programming marbles in today’s youth on the ubiquity of what he calls “fixed function devices” such as games consoles and smartphones. Even the PC came in for criticism for being an expensive, fragile beast that parents are wary of letting their children experiment with and dismantle lest they permanently break the thing.

Enter the Raspberry Pi: a computer small enough and robust enough to be thrown daily into a schoolbag, while costing no more than the price of a textbook, or so they thought. Upton joked that when the team realized that textbooks can be considerably more expensive they might have had an easier time engineering it. The basic Raspberry Pi costs US$25.

As we now know, Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation were able to match the hype, and the Pi has gone on to sell a million units.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released photos of a forthcoming camera module for the popular single-board computer.

Pi spokespeople say the camera will cost $US25 and that the Foundation does not “have a release date for you yet, but we’re probably at least a month away (and possibly more) from being able to sell these at the moment.”

A smaller version of the Raspberry Pi computer built in the UK is driving the cost to under $25.

element14 has announced the launch of the new credit card sized Raspberry Pi Model A board in Europe, selling at under $25. It uses the same 700MHz ARM1176 Broadcom BCM2835 processor but only 256MB of RAM is included as standard, there is no Ethernet connection and only one USB port, but it does use considerably less energy for battery-powered applications.

The larger Model B sold over 500,000 units and demand for the Model A board is anticipated to be from those making industrial control modules, from robotics, automation, and significantly, to use the Pi as a very cheap media center.

In recent weeks element14 has launched two exclusive accessories to support the development of new applications and uses: The Gertboard, a flexible experimenter board that connects the Raspberry Pi out to the physical world, and PiFace, which allows the user to sense and control the real world. Both are available to buy to supplement activity on the Raspberry Pi and can be used with the Model A and Model B boards.

The Raspberry Pi Model A has only 256MB of RAM, which is half of what the Model B has, but given that the original Model B also had the same amount of RAM and few complained it doesn’t seem to be much of a downgrade.

Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation said, “We’re really pleased to finally be able to offer the Model A board. The lower power consumption and reduced height make it a great fit for so many of the projects that people are building with their Pis; and we’re excited to be able to make access to computing available at the $25 price we have been aiming at since we incorporated The Raspberry Pi Foundation as a charity. This is the realisation of our long-standing ambition to provide the world with a $25 computer.”